We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"Good features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization. It is very handy for monitoring. VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good. I'm very happy with VMware. VMware is good in management and monitoring systems."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"Lacks network support."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 17th in Cloud Management with 28 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and CloudStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and OpenNebula. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. vCloud Director report.
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